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Becky Reardon (Questa NM) is coming to town!

Becky Reardon

Sat. Oct. 22

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Singing Workshop

@ Woodlands Garden

Register:

https://elisewitt.com/web/calendar/workshop-with-becky-reardon/

Sun. Oct. 23

7:00 p.m.

Becky & Elise

in Concert!

@ private home in Pine Lake

Register:

https://elisewitt.com/web/calendar/becky-reardon-elise-witt-in-concert/

Address sent with Registration

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Welcome Walk 2022

Every year, the Global Village Welcome Walk is a chance for our community - including students, families, volunteers, donors, partners, and friends - to gather in the spirit of welcome. We invite you to join us and celebrate our commitment to welcoming refugees with open arms!

SAT. NOV. 5

Registration starts at 9:15 a.m.

Walk begins at 10:00 a.m. from Refuge Coffee, Clarkston

We walk to Decatur Presbyterian Church, where the Global Village Project is housed.

Click HERE to register for my team:

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SAT. OCT. 22 ~ 7:30 p.m.

@ Charis Books, our independent feminist bookstore

~ Click here to order the book and/or attend the Event ~

Just before the pandemic, author/teacher Jessica Lander visited Global Village Project (GVP), the special purpose middle school where I use singing to teach English to teenage refugee girls with interrupted education. She was making a journey visiting special places for immigrant education... and now GVP is in her book!
Jessica is coming to Charis Books to introduce her book to Atlanta, and, along with Mr. Crispin Ilombe Wilondja, GVP's Student & Family Engagement Manager, we will be having conversation about Jessica's new book and immigrant education.
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Freedom Quilt
FREEDOM QUILT painting on canvas by students from the Global Village Project
w/Danielle Ereddia, Rachel Smith & Charmaine Minnefield

SINGING for FUN for EVERYONE

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Dive in!

SAT. NOV. 5

3:00 - 4:30 p.m.

Vocal Improvisation Workshop

Registration: https://elisewitt.com/web/calendar/050522-improv-workshop/

Expand your confidence and your consciousness in this singing workshop!

Play with melody, rhythm, language, harmony, vocal production, and soul connection. Get the gritty, technical, sensual sense of how the voice can draw powerfully on vocal wisdom from many cultures.
Explore the rainbow of colors inherent in our voices and join with other daring singers to create vocal landscapes, soulful harmonies, and impromptu sonic masterpieces. In her improvisation Singing Workshops, Elise uses games and exercises from her studies with master teachers Rhiannon, Bobbie McFerrin, David Darling, Dr. Fred Onovwerosuoke, and Dr. Ysaye Barnwell, which expand with our own creativity. We also explore SONGS as inspiration for improvisation.
Vocal Improvisation provides a safe and supportive space to stretch out and widen vocal horizons, and to express our authentic selves.
Music reading is not a prerequisite, but some knowledge of music theory can’t hurt.
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Give the gift of Music!

(to loved ones and yourself!)

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CDs & Digital Downloads

Done with CDs? You can now get any of my music as digital downloads.

And yes, CDs are still available, (though Love Being Here and the archival Elise Witt & Small Family Orchestra double CD are almost sold out)

Click HERE to peruse the Music!

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* Elise Witt w:Songbook, photo by Jessica Lily
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Twenty-two of my songs have been arranged for SATB, SSAA, and TTBB choral groups by Michael Holmes. Check out the music and some beautiful performances by choirs, choruses, and small ensembles! More info click here.

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Thank you graphic design Alessandra Mantovani rev March 26 2018
One of my favorite ways to compose is making Polyrhythmic Multi-lingual Musical Collages. I made my first one with the students of Garden Hills Elementary in Atlanta, where there were 40 languages represented. David Marcus helped me arrange a wonderful composition with native speakers layering up 10 different languages over some danceable percussion!
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Improv at Steve's Live Music 2012
This is a Spontaneous Improvisation with the audience at Steve's Live Music in Atlanta. It is a song of gratitude to live music, to all the musicians who make playing so much fun, and to folks who come to listen and are also willing to become part of the music.
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On November 23, 2019, over 50 musicians and more than 300 audience members gathered at the Chosewood Arts Complex in Atlanta to celebrate the release of All Singing: The Elise Witt Songbook.
Click here to watch the whole concert!
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Elise's Upcoming Schedule

(all times are Eastern US)

2022

Oct. 6-27 ~ Decatur GA

6:00 - 7:30 p.m.Thursday evenings ~ 4-week Singing for Fun Class @ Woodlands Garden

Oct. 13 ~ Decatur GA

4:00 p.m. Elise & Mick present a concert of German songs @ Clairmont Place

Oct. 15-16 ~ Pine Lake GA

Sun @ 3:00 p.m. Elise's set @ Pine Lake Fest - music, arts, crafts, food, parade, flotilla
Sun @ 4:30- 6:00 p.m. CubanaSong

Oct. 21 ~ Decatur GA

2:00 p.m. Authors' Tea @ Global Village Project

Oct. 22 ~ Decatur GA

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.Workshop with Becky Reardon - @ Woodlands Garden

Oct. 22 ~ Decatur GA

7:30 p.m Panel with Jessica Lander & Crispin Ilombe Wilondja @ Charis Books

Oct. 23 ~ Pine Lake GA

7:00 p.m. Concert w/Becky Reardon & Elise Witt

Nov. 3 - Dec. 15 ~ Atlanta GA

6:45 - 8:00 p.m. Singing for Fun for Everyone @ First Existentialist Congregation of Atlanta

Nov. 5 ~ Clarkston - Decatur GA

10:00 a.m. Global Village Project Welcome Walk from Clarkston to Decatur

Nov. 5 ~ Atlanta GA

3:00 - 4:30 Vocal Improvisation Workshop @ First Existentialist Congregation of Atlanta

Nov. 7 - Dec. 12 ~ Online

7:30 - 8:45 p.m. 6-week Singing for Fun for Everyone class series

Nov. 20 - Roanoke VA

3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Circle Sing w/Joy, Onome, Katie...

Dec. 9 ~ Decatur GA

2:00 p.m. Authors' Tea @ Global Village Project

2023

Feb. 26 ~ Atlanta GA

Moira Smiley workshop - details TBA

April 20-23 ~ Ossabaw Island GA

Ossabaw Island: The Land as Messenger, workshop w/Gayanne Geurin

June 1-4 ~ Eastern Shore MD

Singing the Inspiration of the Land & Water ~ Workshop w/Gayanne Geurin @ Broad Creek
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